Bill Text: NY A05001 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during times of student arrival and dismissal to ensure all vehicular traffic is stopped while pedestrians are crossing in the same intersection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05001 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05001-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5001--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CUNNINGHAM, GLICK -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          again  reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          scramble crosswalks leading to and from school buildings during  times
          of student arrival and dismissal

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1640-s to read as follows:
     3    §  1640-s.  Scramble  crosswalks  in  cities  with a population of one
     4  million or more. 1. There shall be scramble crosswalks in cities with  a
     5  population  of  one million or more leading to and from school buildings
     6  during times of student arrival and dismissal. Such scramble  crosswalks
     7  shall include, but not be limited to, the following requirements:
     8    (a)  scramble  crosswalks  shall operate on weekdays between 8:00 A.M.
     9  and 4:00 P.M.;
    10    (b) pedestrians shall wait until a pedestrian-control signal indicates
    11  a sign to walk;
    12    (c) vehicles shall not turn right at the intersection while the  traf-
    13  fic signal indicates a red light;
    14    (d)  bicyclists may proceed with pedestrians when a pedestrian-control
    15  signal indicates a sign to walk, provided however, such bicyclists shall
    16  yield the right of way to all pedestrians in the intersection;
    17    (e) bicyclists may proceed with vehicular traffic  while  the  traffic
    18  signal indicates a green light; and
    19    (f)  signs  shall  be  erected  at  such intersections with a scramble
    20  crosswalk indicating that no person shall enter the intersection  unless
    21  a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians may walk.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06074-08-3
        A. 5001--B                          2

     1    2.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, "scramble crosswalk" means a
     2  crosswalk with a traffic signal which temporarily  stops  all  vehicular
     3  traffic while a pedestrian-control signal indicates that all pedestrians
     4  at the intersection shall cross the intersection at the same time.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.